arete

1. 1.

   a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains

   Broaderridge

Other forms of arete

plural

aretes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about arete

What does arete mean?

arete means "a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains".

How many syllables are in arete?

arete has 2 syllables: a-rete. The stress falls on "a".

Is arete a common word?

arete is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.